Gigi Cau
Italien (Italia)
0039 3407875049
http://www.gigicau.com
Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Acryl
Stil: Minimal / Konzeptkunst
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Gigi Cau’s artistic profile
The artist Luigi Peppino Cau, with the stage name of Gigi Cau, is an artist that stands out for his expressionist style with a strong chromatic accentuation and an incisive sign. A style that suits well with the contents of his works of art, often linked to topical subjects that are important for the inner life of the individual. Therefore, a painting that wants to communicate passionately ideas and feelings and through which the artist invites his public to reflect upon them.
In 2008 the art critic Convertino artistic has analyzed Gigi’s debut and the most recent production, and she defines this production \" New Scenic Ermetismo\", a kind of social denunciation where the expressive strength concentrates on the forms and in the symbols. Following you can find the whole art critic analysis.
In the limelight
Gigi Cau: A New Scenic Ermetismo
by Isabella Convertino
“Art is the only mean to survive the reality”, it is what Friedrich Nietzsche said.
All that the individual produces and creates with his own hands belongs to the reality, and it is able to build and educate it.
Art is life, it is dream, it is love, it is an endless thought that originates from the heart and soul, from the internal sphere and still more, it is determined by the history that we live.
Thus the artist is who doesn\'t accept only to live in a world built previously by the events, by history, by the time, by the technology, by the injustice and by the cruelty of beings, on the contrary, according to a strong internal necessity, he thinks about creating an impenetrable shelter where to live alone and where to be able to describe with sincere eyes the world and things.
The artist Gigi Cau nourishes himself of Art: he breathes the perfumes of his nature, he listens to the dialogue of his souls and describes the big flaws of the current society.
Imagination becomes an essential survival tool, that conducts him toward an ample dimension where he is able to express himself, to converse with himself and to reveal the violence and the incommunicability of the real world.
\"The first Cau\", and I’m referring to his first production, appears confident and altruist, creating figurative works with a symbolic and descriptive character, where it prevails the study of particular ogival faces and biblical themes, of magic atmospheres and aggregations of forms through a hermetic language, that is always present, also in his second artistic phase.
I would define it scenic Ermetismo, that of Cau, that is a language composed by pictorial palimpsests, where the representation is a human tragedy, a sort of social report where expressive strength assembles itself in the forms and symbols.
Thus \"the second Cau\", has matured this strength, that has become a tool to make to emerge some brutal truths as the genetic manipulation, euthanasia and abortion making the Artist a Man that lives its time.
The rich pictorial production of Cau is to be catalogued in the Modern art.
The beginning of the Modern Art refers to artists that belong to the ninenteenth century, such as Rosseau, Van Gogh with the tormented and aching visions of an emotional painting, by the modern sensibility that leaded the theories of Freud; and we finally think about Munch that represented the condition of man in solitude in the relationship with history that didn\'t see him as a protagonist.
Then Modern Art starts with the individual that runs away from the west as in Gaugin, or with the individual that transmits anxiety and illness as in Munch.
Gigi Cau, initially impressed by the luxurious and “neo-Byzantine” dimension of Klimt, that can coincide with his first pictorial phase, passes to a deeper and dramatic vision, where one cannot smile or admire only the drawing, but on the contrary one has to believe in life and improve the world.
Rosseau itself write a manifesto against war and violence even if tragedy is showed in a symbolic way without a real tragedy, as also in the Picasso\'s Guernica, where there is the feeling of something that passes and moves, but not that of a true tragedy.
Therefore, those of Cau are posters without pathos, in them prevail the dreamy dimension, the irony and the joy in the tragedy.
Gigi Cau approach the themes of life, death and love with a taste for the strong colors and for the marked expressive brushstroke; it prevails a curved graphic line, and in the arrangement there is not a stable plan but destabilizing elements that underline the tragedy and incommunicability of the individual.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
Exhibitions and Competitions
On December 2004 he took part in the first international competition of graphic and painting “Boè” gaining the artistic merit’s certificate “for the importance of his message, concealed by a positive aesthetic representation.”
From 5 to 17 February 2005 anthological exhibition at Milano’s Modigliani gallery, Italy
From 24 February to 2 March 2005 he took part in the III Biennal Ermitage Du Riou exposition of contemporary art at le Patio’s galleries – Ermitage du Riou, Mandelieu La Napoule – Cannes, France
On May 2005 he takes part in the Adriatic Grand Prix and then in the “La Telaccia d’oro” competition at Torino for the Winter Olympic Games in 2006, Italy
October and December 2005 personal expositions at the “Centro commerciale La Piazzetta” (Sassari), Italy.
May and June 2006, sacred exposition entitled “Laudate Dominum omnes gentes” at the cCapitular Hall of Benedictine Monastery at San Pietro di Sorres in Borutta (Sassari), Italy.
In july, August and September he took part in group exhibitions at Rimini, Riccione and Cesenatico.
The 1st July 2006 he won a prize at Sirmione by Euro Arte Expò with the “Leone d’oro” (Gold lion)
From 21 to September 2006 he took part in Expò art Nice at Readisson Sas gaining the artistic mention “for his great artistic talent.”
May and June 2007, exposition at Bar “ Il vecchio dado” – Alghero , Sassari (Sardegna – Italy)
August 2007 , exposition at Banca Sella Olbia , Sassari (Saredegna – Italy)
February 2008 , exposition Palazzo Ducale Sassari – Sardegna
May 2008 XXXI editino “Trofeo Medusa Aurea” Accademia Italiana di Arte Moderna
December 2008 on invitation of the Accademy “Giampaoli” will espose noises to Villa Chiassi to Roma acrylic on cloth and a medal in ceramics on the ’68 period theme.
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